Forgot to say thank you @cwarzel.bsky.social for inviting me on Galaxy Brain to talk about AI and warfare recently. I really enjoyed the discussion!
Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 5mo agolearned a crap ton on today's pod with Wired's @willknight.bsky.social. It's about AI and warfare...the history of it, what exactly autonomous weapons do and don't do, how they're being used overseas right now, the fights over how the models are programmed/safeguards. really worth your time imo
learned a crap ton on today's pod with Wired's @willknight.bsky.social. It's about AI and warfare...the history of it, what exactly autonomous weapons do and don't do, how they're being used overseas right now, the fights over how the models are programmed/safeguards. really worth your time imo
How AI Is Reshaping the Battlefield
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My latest story for @wired.com... An AI math startup solved 4 math mysteries, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-ai-math-ai-startup-just-cracked-4-previously-unsolved-problems/
A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.
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My colleague Reece Rogers @thiccreese.bsky.social infiltrated the AI-agent-only social network Moltbook. While posing as another AI bot he found a strange world filled with sci-fi-slop rather than anything resembling real intelligence. www.wired.com/story/i-infi...
I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed
I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.
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In @wired.com's new China issue, I take an in-depth look at the fast-rising robotics firm Unitree. It's low-cost machines, which are found in many US research labs already, reveal China's big manufacturing edge as the AI industry pivots to the physical world. www.wired.com/story/china-...
Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese
Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong?
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In case you missed it, here's a scoop🍦 from me, @mzeff.bsky.social, and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social about OpenAI asking data-training contractors to upload real work docs. It shows how AI firms are pushing to capture white-collar-workflows in order to train useful agents. www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information.
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NEW: OpenAI is asking third-party contractors to upload *real work* they've done at current or past jobs to evaluate their AI models. OpenAI leaves it up to contractors to remove any confidential info. scoop w/ @willknight.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social
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Mikell Taylor@mikell.bsky.social · 9mo agolol I was literally drinking with Will tonight and someone said “oh did you hear Aaron Saunders went to DeepMind” and Will basically did a polite “bitch I broke that story”
It's worth noting that @yann-lecun.bsky.social kicked off the open source AI movement by persuading Mark Zuckerberg to open source a frontier AI model. It may turn out to be one of the most important moments in the history of AI. He deserves more respect than he often gets for that alone. 🫡
Interesting essay on AI and consciousness but it ignores the fact that language models do not actually seem conscious if you take a closer, more scientific, look. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence
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On an airstrip somewhere in Texas, a swarm of killer jets approaches—controlled by, of all things, a large language model. This is the rise of the killer chatbots. AI as weapon by @willknight.bsky.social
Rise of the Killer Chatbots
On an airstrip somewhere in Texas, a swarm of killer jets approaches—controlled by, of all things, a large language model.
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NEW: OpenAI is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids. Great piece from @willknight.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI
The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids.
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In this week's Made in China newsletter: at China's flagship AI summit WAIC, the vibe was totally different from Trump’s America-first, regulation-light vision for AI. Beijing is pitching itself as the world leader of AI safety regulation. WIRED's @willknight.bsky.social reports from Shanghai:
Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World
Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US.
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The camera never lies but this AI model sure does, altering live video in dramatic ways. Given how quickly AI video has advanced, it may soon be difficult to believe anything you see on a livestream, TikTok, or video chat. www.wired.com/story/decart...
This AI Warps Live Video in Real Time
A startup called Decart has developed an AI model that can transform live footage. The results are mind-bending—and poised to take over streaming.
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Elon Musk's lawyers claimed in a Sunday court filing that he "does not use a computer." Here are the many, many times Musk has been seen using a computer or has talked about using a computer recently: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk's Lawyers Claim He 'Does Not Use a Computer'
The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk's ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the last year.
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There should be a word to describe the nauseating feeling that the message you are reading was AI-generated. "Generaphobia" perhaps. Also, PR people, please stop using AI to write pitches.
While the US puts up barriers to the rest of the world, the rest of the world shows it can offer increasingly competitive AI. If isolationism and attacks on higher-ed continue, the US might soon find itself playing catchup. www.wired.com/story/stanfo...
The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US
New research from Stanford suggests artificial intelligence isn’t ruled by just OpenAI and Google, as competition increases across the US, China, and France.
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Think semiconductors are spared from the tariffs? Think again. WIRED found that the list of exempted imports contains only a narrow range of items, omitting key products like GPUs, servers, lithography machines. It makes building data centers & chip plants harder. from me & @willknight.bsky.social
Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival
While the White House carved out a narrow exemption for some semiconductor imports, President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs still apply to GPUs and chipmaking equipment.
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Nice piece by @ethanz.bsky.social on DeepSeek and the perils of isolationism. If only someone in the administration might read it. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/column...
The AI race shows no country can go it alone
The rise of China’s DeepSeek reveals the weaknesses of isolationism as an economic policy
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Backstabbing. Sabotage. Mutiny. And a piss-soaked alleyway in central London. In my latest for @WIRED, I try to finesse my way to winning a $140,000 cryptocurrency prize. www.wired.com/story/crypto...
I Went Undercover in Crypto’s Answer to ‘Squid Game.’ It Nearly Broke Me
I spent 10 days competing in Crypto: The Game, a winner-takes-all contest where hundreds of players try to finesse and backstab their way to claiming a $140,000 cryptocurrency prize.
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My latest for @wired.com; AI researchers propose a new way of reporting dangerous flaws in big AI morels: www.wired.com/story/ai-res...
Researchers Propose a Better Way to Report Dangerous AI Flaws
After identifying major flaws in popular AI models, researchers are pushing for a new system to identify and report bugs.
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Will all the money supposedly being saved be returned to taxpayers somehow? Or might it perhaps justify some wildly expensive new project like a manned mission to Mars?
Thank you @knibbs.bsky.social for taking over WIRED's AI newsletter again this week. You can read her excellent dispatch, on an interesting new AI search tool featuring something called "humans", here: www.wired.com/story/this-n... (Also, please subscribe).
This New AI Search Engine Has a Gimmick: Humans Answering Questions
A new AI-powered search engine called Pearl is launching today, with an unusual pitch: It promises to connect you with an actual human expert if the AI answer sucks. WIRED gave it a spin.
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Very excited that @knightcolumbia.org used our AI Elections Project at @wired.com as the basis for their analysis. knightcolumbia.org/blog/we-look... You can check out the project here: www.wired.com/story/genera...
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation Is Not an AI Problem.
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every time i take over the AI newsletter from @willknight.bsky.social i defile it in some way...today's no different! www.wired.com/story/onlyfa...
OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs
AI is replacing the humans who pretend to be OnlyFans stars in online amorous messages.
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Hello new friends!! I'm Louise, I'm an editor @wired.com. I have a scoop to share today from me and @willknight.bsky.social: The Biden administration is gonna announce a sweeping set of new export controls on Monday designed to strangle China's AI industry www.wired.com/story/memory...
US to Introduce New Restrictions on China’s Access to Cutting-Edge Chips
The new limits, which are expected to be announced Monday, are intended to slow China's ability to build large and powerful AI models.
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